Our Surreal Midcentury, Part 1: Series Introduction and "Marnie"
Our Surreal Midcentury
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MacGuffin Film Club host Joel Gunz introduces the film series Our Surreal Midcentury by examining the impact that Surrealist artists Giorgio de Chirico and Paul Delvaux had on cinema. Afterwards, he offers a few insights to the first film in the series, Alfred Hitchcock's "Marnie" (1964).
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